Opinion
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The legacy of IPA, founded by Nikhil Chakravartty, the doyen of journalism in India, to keep the flag of independent media flying high, is facing the threat of extinction due to the effect of the Covid pandemic. Only an emergency funding can avert such an eventuality. We appeal to all those who believe in the freedom of expression to contribute to this noble cause.CBI’s case against p. Chidambaram is a part of political witchhunt
By Amritananda Chakravorty After spending more than two months in custody, the Supreme Court on October 22 granted bail to Shri P. Chidambaram, former Union Home Minister, and Senior Advocate, in the INX Media case. The Court was hearing an appeal from the Delhi High Court order dated...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Parties in Ayodhya case submit written submission in Supreme Court on ‘moulding of relief’ – On 16 October 2019, the five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court reserved its judgment in the Ayodhya land dispute case and asked all parties to submit their “moulding of relief” applications within 3...
Trump’s Middle East Policy Is In Shambles
By Arun Srivastava Global political scenario and relations are undergoing massive change with the United States under Donald Trump losing ground and Russia emerging fast as the new protector of global peace. American president Donald Trump might be having justifiable reason for withdrawing his troops from...
Israel Gripped In A Political Crisis After Elections
BY Eric A. Gordon As of July 20, 2019, Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu became the longest-serving prime minister in Israel’s history, edging out the founding Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion. In the general election on September 17, he narrowly failed to secure a majority for his Likud Party. It...
Trudeau Has A Good Chance To Reshape His Policies
By C.J. Atkins It’s going to take pressure from the movements outside parliament to wring progressive concessions from the next Canadian government after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals won a minority in the October 21 election. Falling short of the 170 seats needed for outright control in parliament,...
Protests In Haiti Show Signs Of Producing Change
By W. T. Whitney Jr. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Food availability is uncertain for 60 percent of the people. Conditions are bleak, and bleaker still from shortages, rampant political corruption, and not much to show after two years of regular street protests....
Ayodhya Braces For Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi Verdict
By Kalyani Shankar Ayodhya is getting ready to face the impact of the Supreme Court judgment on the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmaboomi title suit by next month. The verdict will, hopefully, put a lid to the dispute between the two communities on the right of ownership. A violent mob...
Low Polling Upsets Calculations
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Low polling in all the five assembly constituencies which went to the polls on Monday due to heavy rains, has caused concern to all the three fronts, particularly the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) and the BJP-headed National Democratic Alliance (NDA) The CPI(M)-led...
BJP’S NRC Bogey May Not Work In West Bengal
By Ashis Biswas In Assam, there is a major disillusionment among some people over the perceived failure of the much publicised National Register of Citizens (NRC) updating exercise. Far from identifying and isolating at least 5 million Bangladeshi illegal migrants if not more, the tangible outcome of the...
Presidential Poll In Sri Lanka Has Special Importance For India
By Barun Das Gupta Sri Lanka is going to elect a new president on November 16. The present incumbent, Sirisena Maithripala, is not contesting. Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa’s Brother Nandasena Gotabaya, better known as Gotabaya, is contesting this time. Though there are as many as 35 contestants...
Loan Waivers, Rate Cuts May Put Banks In Deeper Distress
By Nantoo Banerjee Veteran banker and financial wizard Deepak Parekh is absolutely right to lately express his concern about the system of loan waivers and write-offs “every now and again” while there is little “to protect the honest, common man’s savings.” The HDFC chairman’s comments came in the...
Two Chief Ministers Who Have Botched Their Cases
By Amulya Ganguli Two chief ministers, Arvind Kejriwal and Mamata Banerjee, have severely weakened their positions at a time when the next Assembly election in their states is not far away. Yet, both started on a high note, none being more upbeat than Kejriwal. Even after Narendra...
Labour Seeks New Alliance To Thwart Johnson’s Brexit Deal
By Arun Srivastava The political development in Britain is moving along expected lines. Boris Johnson has failed to persuade the Commons to bail out his Brexit deal. His political advisers have made him to believe that the Parliament would stand by him and winning a clear majority for...
No End In Sight To Madhya Pradesh Corruption Scandals
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Almost every day when you open your newspaper you read news about some or other officer found involved in corrupt practices. Invariably property and cash running into several crores is recovered. The latest to be caught owning property worth more than Rs. 100...
All About Abhijit Banerjee, 2019 Economics Nobel Co-Winner
By Harihar Swarup Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, who has won the 2019 Nobel for Economics, along with his Esther Duflo (his economist wife) and Michael Kremer, has observed the Indian economy is on a shaky ground. The data recently available do not hold any assurance for the country’s economic...
Last-Minute Posturing With Eye On Ayodhya Verdict
By K. Raveendran The last minute volte face by the Muslim parties to the Ayodhya dispute rejecting the terms of the so-called settlement as reported by the mediation panel is a clear case of grandstanding meant to influence the court’s decision. An agreed, settlement would have made...
BJP Pitches Hyper-Nationalism Even In State Assembly Polls
By Sagarneel Sinha With the election dates for Haryana and Maharashtra approaching nearer, one picture that emerges very clearly is that of the paralyzed opposition battling against the BJP, which is leaving no stone unturned — not only to win both the states but to register a victory...
Hunger In India Is Too Serious To Be Ignored Now
By Gyan Pathak Falling of India from 55th position in 2014 to 102nd position in 2019 in Global Hunger Index (GHI) is a terrible global indictment of the miserable performance of Modi government on tackling incidents of hunger in the country. On GHI severity scale, the country scored...
